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Why Napoleon, Once Larger Than Life, Now Feels So Small
“History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom Carlyle described as “our chief contemporary wonder,” was considered by many to be the greatest. The “little corporal” who became a ...
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Crushing It
The minivan life takes a turn when the kids are old enough to drive.
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Business
How Elon Musk Changed the Meaning of Twitter for Users
After Nicholas Campiz evacuated from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in February 2022, he stayed glued to Twitter. As battles raged across the country, he tracked them on the app, staying up through many nights in a hotel room in Tbilisi, Georgia, to read ...
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World
Palestinian Citizens of Israel Are Wary, Weary and Afraid
Fida Shehada is a member of the City Council of Lod, a town of some 84,000 people, perhaps 30 percent of them Arab citizens of Israel. And Ms. Shehada, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, is afraid, to put it mildly, of what may come now, after the ...
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World
These Women Could Make New York Champions Again
The Mets are out. The Yankees are out. The Jets’ new star Aaron Rodgers’s poor tormented Achilles’ tendon is out. The Giants lost their first game by a brutal 40-0. It can feel like a dark time to be invested in New York sports. But don’t despair ...
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From School Bells to Wedding Bells
Picking a wedding venue can be a daunting process. But for some couples who met as college students, marrying at their alma maters is the clear choice.
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World
Australians’ ‘Golden Ticket’ to the U.S.
Proposed changes to the E-3 visa have worried some expatriates.
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Greek Hotels Fear a Burning Future: ‘Even the Animals Are Moving Away’
The fiercest wildfires have hit only parts of a few islands. But the effects of climate change pose a far wider threat to Greece’s tourism industry.
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World
Pacific Seabed Mining Delayed as International Agency Finalizes Rules
Efforts to extract the metals used in car batteries have been pushed off amid pressure from environmentalists and nations that oppose them.
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World
Putin Is Doubling Down on Failure
In the wake of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed rebellion, it seems as if Russia’s leaders are living in an alternate reality. The sequence of events speaks for itself. Russian troops waved through Wagner columns on their way to Moscow and curious ...
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